Verdi Spoiler Alert In Verdi's Simon Boccanegra at Covent Garden this past spring, Fiesco says "Simone, I morti ti salutano!" -- "Simon, the [previously-thoug

Verdi Spoiler Alert In Verdi's Simon Boccanegra at Covent Garden this past spring, Fiesco says "Simone, I morti ti salutano!" -- "Simon, the [previously-thought] dead salute you!". To the classically minded, it's a riff on the gladitorial salute to the Roman emperor "Nos te morituri te salutant" -- we who are about to die salute you. Takeaway lesson: only date people who laugh as much at Latin jokes as you do.